Notable Birthdays on October 28
Eliphalet Remington (1793-1861) - Founder of Remington Arms.
Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (1842-1932) - Abolitionist, women's rights advocate, and writer who was considered the Joan of Arc of her time.
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Gilbert H. Grosvenor (1875-1966) - The first full-time editor of National Geographic Society.
Ormer Locklear (1891-1920) - Silent movie stunt pilot.
Otto Huiswoud (1893-1961) - Suriname immigrant to American who became a political activist and the editor-in-chief for the Negro Worker publication.
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Edith Head (1897-1981) - Costume designer and winner of the most Academy Awards of all time.
Richard Doll (1912-2005) - Physician who discovered the link that smoking causes lung cancer.
Jonas Salk (1914-1995) - Developer of the polio vaccine.
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Jack Soo (1917-1979) – Actor known for his role as Detective Nick Yemana in Barney Miller.
Bill Harris (1925-1973) – Trombonist who played with the Woody Herman and Charlie Ventura orchestras.
Leonard Starr (1925-2015) - Cartoonist known for comic strips, including Little Orphan Annie.
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Charlie Daniels (1936-2020) - Country musician best remembered for his anthem Devil Went Down to Georgia.
Dennis Franz (1944-Still Living) - Actor best known for his character Detective Andy Sipowicz on NYPD Blue.
Caitlyn Jenner (formerly Bruce Jenner) (1949-Still Living) - Olympian, reality TV personality, and transgender activist.
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Annie Potts (1952-Still Living) – Actress known for her roles in Ghostbusters and Designing Women.
Desmond Child (1953-Still Living) - Songwriter of several hit songs, including You Give Love a Bad Name and Livin' on a Prayer (Bon Jovi) and Dude (Looks Like a Lady) (Aerosmith).
Bill Gates (1955-Still Living) - Co-founder of Microsoft.
Landon Curt Noll (1960-Still Living) - Computer scientist and mathematician who was the youngest person to hold the world record for the largest known prime 3 times.
Lauren Holly (1963-Still Living) – Actress known for her character Director Jenny Shepard on NCIS.
Jami Gertz (1965-Still Living) - Actress best known for her roles during the 80s in movies like The Lost Boys and Crossroads.
Julia Roberts (1967-Still Living) - Award-winning actress known for her roles in Pretty Woman and Erin Brockovich.
John Romero (1967-Still Living) - Video game designer for id Software.
Ben Harper (1969-Still Living) - Multi-instrumentalist musician best known for his skill of blending rock, folk, and reggae.
Brad Paisley (1972-Still Living) - Country music singer of We Danced.
Joaquin Phoenix (1974-Still Living) - Eccentric actor known for his roles in Joker and Walk the Line.
Andy Richter (1966-Still Living) - Comedian best known as the sidekick on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
Daphne Zuniga (1962) - Actress who made her debut in the The Dorm That Dripped Blood (1982).
Kanzi (1980-Still Living) - An ape named Bonobo who is considered the most literate non-human in the world.
Frank Ocean (1987-Still Living) - Singer-songwriter who is often referred to as a pioneer in R&B music.
Nolan Gould (1998-Still Living) - Actor best known for his character Luke Dunphy in Modern Family.
Memorable Events on October 28
1636 - Harvard University is established.
1646 - First Protestant church assembly for American Indians is established.
1790 - New York gives up Vermont for $30,000.
1793 - Eli Whitney applies for a patent for his cotton gin machine.
1831 - Michael Faraday demonstrates his electrical generator invention.
1846 - Pioneers traveling to the west die in a blizzard in Nevada.
1858 - Macy's opens its first store in NY City and grosses $11.06 for the day.
1886 - President Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
1867 - The first U.S. Jewish college, Maimonides College, opens in Pennsylvania.
1904 - St. Louis police try using fingerprints in an investigation for the first time.
1913 - George Herriman comic strip Krazy Kat comic strip by debuts.
1919 - Congress passes the Volstead Act paving the way for Prohibition to begin.
1921 - North Dakota has the first gubernatorial recall election causing Governor Lynn Frazier to lose Ragnvald Nestos by a little over 4,000.
1922 - The first football game is broadcasted coast-to-coast.
1942 - A train crashes into bus and kills 16 people in Detroit.
1973 - Elmore Smith (LA Lakers) blocks 17 shots in one game.
1981 - Edward M McIntyre is elected the first Black Mayor of Augusta, GA.
1986 - The 100th year anniversary of the Statue of Liberty is celebrated.
2014 - A NASA rocket carrying supplies for the Cygnus CRS Orb-3 explodes seconds after taking off.
2021 - Facebook changes it's corporate name to Meta.
